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Last month, Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity was published. Since then, I\u2019ve been touring North America to promote the Strong Towns movement and share our ideas with audiences big and bigger. It\u2019s been an astounding six weeks.\nAnd as the person who has been here from the start, the one who wrote the very first article on this site eleven years ago, the one who coined the term \u201cStrong Towns\u201d and first started talking of the work as a \u201cmovement for change\u201d (when others scoffed at the notion), today I am very confident of two things:\nFirst, what we\u2019re doing \u2013 all of us, together \u2013 is working. We\u2019re changing the entire conversation about growth, development, capital investment, cities, and infrastructure. There are few places in this country where these issues are being discussed where our ideas are not influencing the conversation. That\u2019s not because of me, and it\u2019s not because of any of us here working for the organization. It\u2019s because of you; our members, our audience, and this entire movement of people that is out there sharing our message and pushing for change.\nSecond, this movement is about to break through into a higher level of the cultural discourse. This has happened before as our ideas have spread, and each time it\u2019s an exponential ride up the influence curve. This time, the leap is going to be huge \u2013 we can see it starting to happen. The book release buzz has connected us with three cable news networks as well as multiple national media publications, all of which are enthusiastic about discussing our ideas. The platform for spreading our message is about to expand. This is exciting.\nEvery November, we pause for a week to ask the members of our audience to support the Strong Towns movement by becoming members. The $5, $10, $25 or more a month so many are giving us \u2013 or your one-time contribution of any amount \u2013 is the most important source of funding we have. Please take a moment right now and sign up to be a member of Strong Towns.